Connext Professional

Software framework designed to meet the demanding connectivity requirements of smart-world systems.

Overview

Connext Professional is a robust software framework for developing and integrating safety- and mission-critical systems. Its data-centric approach simplifies and eases system integration by allowing applications to interact directly with data objects and enables the creation of scalable systems that span diverse public and private networks.

Connext Professional handles real-time data with the reliability, security and ultra-low latency essential for mission-critical real-world systems. It distributes and manages real-time data, allowing applications and devices to work together as one, integrated system. Connext Professional has:

A decentralized, data-centric architecture and peer-to-peer communication to enable high reliability,
Real-time Quality of Service (QoS) eliminating bottlenecks and any single point of failure,
A rich set of tools that simplifies development and accelerates integration testing and debugging, from design to deployment,
And over 70% of the DDSTM market share, delivering the proven foundation for mission-critical systems.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

  • Generates type-specific and type-safe DDS interfaces from IDL or XML data type descriptions. It generates example publishers and subscribers, makefiles and IDE projects
  • Supports systems-of-systems or a layered databus architecture. It bridges data across transport protocols, physical networks and security domains. It monitors subscriptions and only forwards currently subscribed data for efficient bandwidth utilization. It can also transform data between applications that use incompatible data types
  • Enables developers to create Routing Service adapters to easily integrate non-DDS applications. It includes the source code to several sample adapters (OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT) that can be customized to support a wide variety of standard and proprietary interfaces
  • Helps to optimize performance and identify problems using metrics emitted by Connext systems enabled with monitoring libraries. It displays comprehensive performance, health and resource utilization statistics in a graphical view.
  • Makes historical data available to latejoining applications, even when the original publisher is no longer accessible
  • Records high-throughput realtime data for future analysis and debugging. Recorded data can be replayed for testing and simulation using the original or modified QoS settings and data rates
  • Command-line utilities for checking system connectivity and inspecting packet contents.
  • Measures network throughput and latency for a given publisher and subscriber configuration and message size. It helps users understand network capabilities and the impact of different configuration settings
  • Provides a high-level API for publishing log messages using the Connext Databus. Log messages can be visualized from RTI Monitor, Admin Console or subscribed from a custom tool
  • Database Integration Service provides bi-directional integration between the Connext Databus and a relational database. It stores published data in the database and can publish database updates to subscriber applications
  • Provides a RESTful HTTP interface to the databus for easy integration with web applications and scripting languages
  • Allow DDS applications to run in severely bandwidth-constrained networks, such as satellite or radio links. It does not require use of the IP. The plugins include a simulator for emulating and testing behavior over low bandwidth networks
  • ecurity Plugins included in Connext® Secure, support authentication, encryption, access control and logging based on the DDS Securityâ„¢ standard. They provide fine-grained control over security policies and support any Connext transport, including multicast.